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• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009JZZU2
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #38,761 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Memorable but too heavy, December 19, 2005

By	LF "Keep your feedback to yourself, these are... (USA) - See all my reviews

A Sensitive Passionate Man is an extremely depressing story. A man loses his job and becomes an alcoholic. He disintegrates in front of our eyes. That is basically the whole plot. It is difficult to watch. His wife and children must go on. The "happy ending" is that the destroyed man finally dies, and the wife and kids are well rid of him. I'd give this movie 2 stars and I feel sorry for anyone who puts himself through watching it. It is not well directed, though the acting is good. The early pacing is much too slow. It takes too long to grab our interest.

Seven Alone is better, although still too heavy. A mid 19th century man decides to leave his established home, and take his wife and children across country to live out his dream to be a pioneer in Wyoming. The wife sensibly resists until neighbors and relatives entice them all to go. The husband and wife both die on the trip, leaving leadership of the family up to the oldest child, a troublesome boy. The boy insists on going all the way to the original destination despite some good reasons to cut the trip short. This foolish and reckless dream nearly kills them all, but there is a happy ending, as the boy keeps his family together after all, arriving at the destination and meeting an unbelievably irresponsible Kit Carson, who basically gives moral support and allows the children to be placed in an almost impossible situation on their own.

The movies are memorable. That's one thing I can say for them. That's worth something. They are both ponderous.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sobering performances, September 26, 2005

By	M. E. Field (Memphis, Tn) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I believe this was made as a television movie of the week, rather than a theatrical release. It is the story of a couple who have been married for 13 years living the American Dream--nice house, husband with great job, wife with two adorable kids. The husband loses his job and his sense of self worth and their whole world crashes as the husband(David Janssen)spirals into alcholism.
Angie Dickinson plays the long suffering wife desparately trying to save the man she loves and the father of her children. She may seem too noble to some but having been in alcoholic family circumstances I know the extent one spouse will go to try to save the other. At the time this film was made, it was just being understood that alcoholism is indeed a disease and there is some reference to this.

I thought Janssen should have gotten an award for his performance. Some of the things that happened in that film were portrayed with such realism it was frightening. As with real life, there is not always a happy ending.

4.0 out of 5 stars A Sensitive Frightening Performance, August 13, 2008

By	Guss H. - See all my reviews

David Janssen's show business associates must have been trying to tell him something when he was persuaded to take on this role of a brilliant but self destructive professional man in this hard hitting made-for TV film. As the camera close-shots his bloated, alcohol ravaged features and watery eyes, you get the feeling it wasn't all acting. Tragicaly, he died just a couple of years after this was made. Tough to watch, but with a strong message for every one who has wrestled with the Demons.